STANDPOINT STUDIO

Registered charity 1064750 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Standpoint has the following objectives:To involve the community, including schools and colleges, in practical arts education by providing talks, events and workshops. To support artists and craftspeople by providing gallery and workspace facilities within which they can exhibit and develop their work.To promote the visual arts by developing public appreciation and access to the arts.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE ARTS IN SOCIETY AND IN PARTICULAR THE VISUAL ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY DEVELOPING PUBLIC APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND BY IMPROVING PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE ARTS. (2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO STUDENTS FROM SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE VISUAL ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE VISUAL ARTS INCLUDING THE WORK OF ARTISTS FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM (3) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PRACTISING THE VISUAL ARTS (4) TO UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted surplus of £7,861 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £28,572. This figure is above the trustees' stated optimum reserves policy target of £15,000. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/03/2024, 36 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GRAHAM BIGNELL
• MICHAEL ROY TAYLOR
• NICOLA TASSIE

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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